Monthly Archives: August 2012
Hotels and Social Media. A Presentation.
To give you a bit of inspiration, over the weekend I put together a presentation based on the post How Hotels Can Use Social Media to Attract Meeting Planners. Here it is. If you can’t view the file, check it out on Slideshare. How Hotels Can Use Social Media to Attract Event Planners… Read more
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Tagged destination management, hotel marketin, hotels, meeting planning
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10 Event Marketing Tips
This is a guest post by Michelle Bergstein. Also known as the Event Marketing Maven, Michelle lives, eats and breathes marketing for the hospitality, event and meeting industries. You can find her on Twitter or on BeatCreative I got to admit, after reading Julius’ previous post the 10 biggest… Read more
Event Startups: Does Excitement Mean Success?
A few months ago I was very excited to invest a small capital in Eventasaurus. It so happens that Eventasaurus does not exist anymore. Here is what I learnt from this failure. I was quite thrilled a while ago when I got approached by Eventasaurus. The service was innovative back in July and… Read more
5 Social Media Monitoring Tools for Event Managers
This is a guest post by Corina Mackay. She is a freelance writer, social media manager and inbound marketer. Hit her up on Twitter or Google+. More information about guest posts. If you’re plugged into social media, you’ve probably realized how difficult it can be to monitor your… Read more
The 10 Biggest Lies in Events Marketing
There are plenty of innovators in the events industry. People that care about how they deal with customers, partners and management. Then there are others who simply do not care and would do everything it takes to sell a ticket. Here is a collection of their most recurring lies. When the day… Read more
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Tagged lies, marketing, selling tickets, social media for events, social media marketing, tickets selling
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Which Association Should I Join?
This post is a question to you dear reader. After usurping the right to give you advice, I am now asking for… Read more
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Landing the Million Dollar Event
The following is a guest post by Howard Givner, Founder & Executive Director of the Event Leadership Institute, which provides training and education for event professionals through on-demand video classes, white papers, webinars, live events, and interviews with industry… Read more
So, Who’s Attending the Event?
This is a sponsored post by Eventbrite. For more information about sponsored posts click here. This is one of the most recurring question an organizer gets. It also highlights how much we care about our friends attending in order for us to click on “buy ticket”. Attending an event is not an… Read more
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Tagged facebook connect, social recommendation, ticketing, who is coming
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Why #eventprofs Should Start Using Eventifier Now
I just spotted a great little tool called Eventifier. I believe you should give it a go. It doesn’t happen very often that I look at an event tech start up and think: “This makes total sense”. Sometimes I am completely wrong, some other times I tend to nail it. I was just tweeting… Read more